Field-gun.



PATENTED AUG. 18, 1903.

E. K. ROTHE'. FIELD GUN APPLICATION FILED-MAY 4. 1903 NO MODEL.

UNrTnn Stern's Patented August 18, 1903;.

ERNSTKARL ROTHE, OF EISENACH, GERMANY.

FIELD Tenn.

S PECIFIGATIbN forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,881, dated. August 18, 1908. Original application filed February 3, I903 Serial o. 141,709. Divided and this application filed Kay 4, 903. flsrlal To a. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNST KARL I, d subject of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar,

residing at Eisenach, in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Field-Guns, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in or relating to field-- guns and is what may be tefined a brakeprotector.

The subject-matter of this application is a division of my application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 141,709, filed February 3, 190.3.

The main desideratum in the support for field-guns is that it should he as light as possible and yet be constructed in such a. man nor that the parts regulating the recoil and the brake-cylinder, with its stufiing-box, spring, piston, and piston-rod, should be sufficiently protected on all sides against foreign bodies and splinters of shells. This is efseized in accordance with my invention by providing the upper carrier or support on its under side with aprotective armor hinged to the upper carriage, The upper carriage and the said armor are separated by a free space from the brake-cylinder, so that the latter is protected by the armoragainst splinters of shells that may come from the outside or from below, and the armor is so connected to the carrier that it can be lowered, so as to allow of easy access to the brake, and more particularly to the stufling-box.

J In describing the invention in detail refer- I ence ls had to the accompanying drawings,

forming-a part of this specification, wherein like" reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout both views, and in Figure 1 is a. side elevation of the brakeprotector broken away at one end and set up in position; and Fig. 2 denotes a section on line A B, Fig. 1. 1

Referring to characters, 0 denotes the upper carrier,which is so arranged in relation to the brake as to the drawings by reference (Ho model.)

The reference character u denotes the armor, which closes the intervening space at the hottom thereof and also forms a clearance-space between the said armor and. the brake. The armor-plate u, is hinged to the upper carrier, as at z, and its free end is connected to the through the eyes 2 z". I

The consjsruction of brakeprotector set forth-enables tinaentire hrake-gear---that is to say, the brake-cylinder, withstnfing-box, piston-rod, and drawing-spring-to be protectedagainst foreign bodies and splintersof shells, which could otherwise get into it from the outside, as well as from below, and maths same time enables the armor plat'e u to be disconnected from the nppercarrier o to en form an intervening space betweerrthe sa'me.

- carrier'o by means of the pins z passingable the inspection of the brake-cylinder, ac

cess to the stuffing-135x, and the cleaning thereof. 7

Having now particularly described and ascertained the naturejof my said invention and in what manner thesani'e is to he performed, I declare that what I claim is" 1. In a field-gun. carriage, a slide-frame pivoted to the main carriage, consisting of vertical plates along the top edge of which-the gun, recoils, a recoil-checlrand recuperetor means placed between said plates, an armorlate hinged at one side to one oi. said plate and means for connecting the other side of the armor-plate to the other of said plates.

2. In a field-gun carriage, a; slide-frame pivoted to the-maincarriage, consisting of vertical plateslalong the top edge of which the gun recoils, a recoil-check and recuperate]: means glaced between said plates, an armor-plate ingedgt one side to one of said plates, and eyes an pins for connecting the other side of the armor-plate to the other of said plates.

Intestimonfwhereof I have hereunto set ii'iyhand in presence of two snhscrihinggvid 

